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LENOIR CITY, TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES, — GreenLeaf Industries, a Lenoir City, TN plastic injection molding company has been active in supporting the return of manufacturing jobs (re-shoring) that have previously exited the states based on previous trends of off-shoring. To help bring awareness of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) related to off-shoring Plastic Injection

According to Cerasis, a good number of U.S manufacturers who had set up base outside the country have moved back home, a move known as reshoring. A study carried out by a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) established that 54% of companies with revenues of USD$1 billion and above are thinking about reshoring. The lure of

Recently, GreenLeaf Industries has noticed a renewed interest in companies looking to bring their plastic injection molding part production back to the U.S. after previously off-shoring production to Asia or Mexico. The Lenoir City, TN based manufacturer has been successful in re-shoring multiple projects to their factory and continue to educate prospective purchasing officers and

The plastic injection molding company was recently featured in Plastics Technology for their success with reshoring custom molded parts. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Lenoir City, TN)—GreenLeaf Industries, a plastic injection molding company in Tennessee, has recently celebrated a feature in online magazine Plastics Technology. In the featured article, the team at Greenleaf Industries was recognized for

In the industry of custom plastic Injection molding, there is a vibrant discussion underway about plastic part manufacturing returning to the U. S. from overseas. Sure, labor costs in China were significantly less back in 2009, and purchasing leaders are paying much greater attention to the OVERALL cost benefits of reshoring but what are the

If you want to know what it takes to bring a manufacturing job back to the United States, the best place to start is with someone who’s done it. Like many manufacturers, the makers of TinkerToys and LincolnLogs shifted a lot of production to China in the late 90’s. “The savings were dramatic,” recalls Michael

U.S. Manufacturing is the driving force behind the steady economic growth, competitive advantage, innovation and high quality of life in our homeland. It has played a key role in shaping and developing the U.S. economy throughout the history of the nation, especially after the start of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700’s. Family owned

Many individuals loosely associated with the manufacturing world, have long been under the inaccurate assumption that offshoring always improves a company’s bottom line due to lower wages abroad. As a result, for too long, companies failed to adequately analyze the full costs involved with offshoring. These costs include not only the financial shipping and tariff costs,